Complete Not dictionary/glossary definitions Due on Unit Test/Quiz Day Neatness Terms List Expectations

Complete

Not dictionary/glossary definitions Due on Unit Test/Quiz Day Neatness

Terms List Expectations

Who was involved? Where did the event take place? When did the event take place? What happened? Why is it significant?

Terms List ExpectationsExploration

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Dutch, English, French, Spanish, Scandinavian

explorers(who) Participated in a race to claim land in America

(what) Explorers from Europe traveled to America (where) 1400-1600’s (when) Competition between nations – global leadership

(why)Desire for wealth (why)Spread of Christianity (why)

Established colonies in America – beginnings of our country (why significant)

Exploration

Colonization

Dutch English French Spanish Scandinavian

Early European Exploration

Why Explore?

Causes Competition

between nations Desire for wealth Spread of

Christianity

Effects Destruction of Native

American empires French and Indian War Disease

Columbian Exchange Good brought from Europe;

goods brought back from the Americas

Colonies in America established

Slavery in America (grows)

Map Day

See Colonial America packet: p. 2

Colonization

British Exploration (why) and Colonization (where)

Search for wealth (wealth=power)

Mercantilism Earning wealth through trade (GB huge population with

few resources, America few people with great resources) Collect resources/raw materials send them to GB for

manufacturing turn them into finished goods and resell them to colonies

Political Strength Becoming/maintaining world power status

Religious freedom Pilgrims/Puritans

Why the British explored…

Brand new world…

No “colonial” traditions Limited/no guidance No government/authority physically present

Began their own traditions… What’s in a name? (What’s your name?) Fly a Flag

Life in the colonies?

Baby Names, Groaning Cake and

Designer Flags

1. Read, highlight, annotate What’s Your Name? (packet)

2. Try some Groaning Cake? – why did they have it?3. Fly a Flag – Read the class copy of Fly a Flag;

design and make your own colonial flagOn the reverse side of your flag – describe each elements’ significance/importance (paragraph)

What/who was there as the colonists

landed? Houses? Businesses? Roads? People?

Did these Native Americans live life the way colonists had been accustomed to (life in GB)?

Were there ways of life that could be shared though? Exchange of ideas – farming, agriculture, travel

Was life in the colonies all baby names and designer

flags?

How did colonists get houses?

Businesses? Had to bring people with these skills to

the colonies (carpenter, blacksmith, mason, miner, lumberjack, businessmen, wealthy)

Each boat that set sail for the colonies brought with them a new set of skills that Colonial America needed to grow

Was life in the colonies all baby names and designer

flags?

Who (what country) founded the

original thirteen colonies? What are the three regions that

make up the original thirteen colonies?

What were the strengths/weaknesses of each of the colonial regions? What did each of the regional

colonies provide for Mother England?

British Colonies

Southern Colonies

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

British Colonies

Long growing season Fertile, vacant land Sun Access to ports/water Freedom of religion (Maryland)

What did the South offer to Great Britain?

What does this mean for Great Britain in the big picture?

First (successful) British settlement

Jamestown, Virginia (1606) “deadly” experience (initially)

Sent money, no experience and limited skill

Can you survive w/o shelter, food, water and defense? Finally, colonists recognize the formula

for success = diverse population (skills)

Southern Colonies

Among the diverse population of the

southern colonies were… Farmers Bankers Catholics

Maryland – first American colony established for “religious freedom”

Toleration Act of 1649 Indentured servants Slaves

Southern Colonies

Plantations (really big farms)

Tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton, pigs, corn Required labor: indentured servants (not

slaves) Contracted to work 4-7 years Free to use their skills following this

service Demand for labor increased (as the

demand for cash crops – cotton, tobacco - increased): slave trade developed By 1750 slaves were the main source of labor

on southern plantations

Economy of southern colonies

Was everyone in the south a

wealthy plantation owner?

Did everyone have slaves?

Economy of southern colonies

Southern Colonies


New England Colonies New Hampshire, Massachusetts,

Connecticut, Rhode Island

British Exploration

Ports for trading companies Timber Whale oil Fisheries Religious freedom (reformation)

What did the New England colonies offer

Great Britain?


What is the climate/environment like

in New England? Little demand for farm labor/slaves

Subsistence/community farming

Creating demand for skilled professionals

New England Economy

Trade

Raw materials Whale oil, fish,

timber/lumber Natural resources (shipped to

GB); manufactured (in GB) and sold back to the colonies Mercantilism

New England Economy

Diversity among colonists

Trades/skills Merchants, fishermen, ship builders,

lumberjacks, blacksmiths, printers, weavers

Wealth Education/languages Religion

New England Community

Mayflower - 1620 Mayflower Compact

Legal contract that all agreed to have fair law as to protect the general good (of the community)

Attempt at self-government (first in colonies)


Why was there no government for the

colonies? What government had they been used to?

Where was the King?

First to establish local government that included… Court system Representative government (elections)


Religion and government closely tied together

What makes that different from today’s US society? Separation of Church and State

Government leaders were also church leaders Where do you think the government leaders

found their voters/followers?


Religious escape (1620-1640) Puritans

Wanting to purify the Church of England Boston, Massachusetts

Pilgrims Wanting to separate from the Church of

England Plymouth, Massachusetts

Great Migration


If we are going to survive as a

community, we must… Be family oriented Have women and children involved Maintain faith in religion Provide education

Why is this a need? Read what?


John Harvard – 1636

Boston, Massachusetts William and Mary College –

1693 Virginia

Education

New England embraced the opportunity to learn from Native

Americans

Will you teach us how to grow crops?

Absolutely, in exchange for resources and finished goods.

Exchange of information,

techniques, tools (Native Americans/Colonists)

Celebration of successful harvest Survival of the new colony

Thanksgiving

New England Colonies

Southern Colonies


New England Colonies New Hampshire, Massachusetts,

Connecticut, Rhode Island Middle Colonies

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

British Exploration

Blend of New England and Southern colonies Staple crops

Wheat, barley, oats (grains), iron, wood Trade Indentured servants/slaves

What did the Middle colonies offer to Great Britain?


Equality of men and women Nonviolence Religious tolerance

Middle Colonies Community

Quakers

William Penn

Establish a safe home for Quakers Equality of men and women Nonviolence Religious tolerance

Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania

1681 granted a charter by King Charles II

Penn limited his own power Created an elected assembly (representative

self-government)

Capital: Philadelphia- City of Brotherly Love(Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John)

Largest colonial city - 1760

Penn’s Woods: Pennsylvania

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